The admin directory
This directory contains scripts and other things useful for developing
and maintaining Emacs. These files are not part of Emacs releases
because they are not deemed generally useful, and you have to know
what you do when using them.
* Instructions and scripts used to prepare an Emacs release.
** FOR-RELEASE
Living list of activities that must be completed before the next release.
** make-tarball.txt
Instructions to create pretest or release tarballs, annoucements, etc.
** admin.el
Utilities for setting version numbers and alike.
** make-announcement, make-changelog-diff
Scripts used to prepare release announcements.
* Scripts that can be used to build and test Emacs.
** build-configs
Build Emacs in various configurations.
** make-emacs
Build Emacs in various ways.
** quick-install-emacs
Install emacs quickly (`incrementally').
** alloc-color.c
A utility program that allocates a given number of colors on X. Can
be used to debug Emacs with dense colormaps (PseudoColor).
** check-doc-strings
Check doc strings against documentation.
** cus-test.el
Tests for custom types and load problems.
** diff-tar-files
Show files added/removed between two tar files.
** revdiff
Get CVS diffs of files.
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